Nano has already supplanted the great EMacs and Vim as the most popular text editor of all linux distros, for though it has many omissions in functionality it scores over the older, more complete programs in two important respects. First, it is slightly simpler; and secondly it has the text "^ Exit" inscribed in highlighted text on its footer

EDIT : This sees to be going over some people's heads. It's a hitchiker's guide to the galaxy reference.

The Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions . . . it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

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[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've used Vim, NeoVim, Micro, mg(1), JOE, and even MS Edit (both the original DOS version and the recent Rust clone). No matter how complex and tailored I wrote my config, though, the features I actually used were included in GNU nano and/or my command shell without any of the bugs, bloat, learning curve, or slop.

Using it as my default just makes sense.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

DOS edit was just an alias to qbasic /edit packaged in a .com

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nano is great for editing files. It is absolutely terrible for any amount of text processing or anything other than raw code copied from a tutorial

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You guys do text processing on terminal editors?

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

was gonna say, I have IDEs and other dedicated programs for that

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course. What do you think vim users do?

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fuck all? ;-)

Alternative joke: try to figure out how to exit

[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 4 points 1 day ago

What sort of text processing? I rarely do this, so I usually just rely on things like sed, ed, sort, uniq, and other shell commands to handle this.